From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: Concepts
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Color harmonies - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: Concepts
Color harmonies
A color harmony is a group of colors that work well together, and there are various types of harmony to explore. We'll look at a few just now, but you can always delve into more later. In the very simplified diagram that I have here, we have a color wheel expanded to include some tints and shades, with the base colors all being in the center ring that has dotted lines around it. This helps us with our first harmony, monochrome. By choosing a hue, we can create a monochrome theme using tints and shades of that hue. Analogous harmonies use neighboring hues along with their tints and shades, which by the way is something you could do with any harmony because they are all guides. Complementary hues are opposites on the color wheel. When placed close together, Complementary colors can be very striking, but they should be used carefully as they can create an optical vibration. There are variations of complementary colors, such as a split complementary, which uses hues on either side of the…
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